The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Woody80
- Violet70
- Smoky60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Aldehydes
- Juniper
- Vetiver
- Pink Pepper
- Tobacco
- Spices
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readVetiver and sandalwood form the spine, their dry woodiness sharpened by aldehydes that lift the accord into cool air. Pink pepper sparks across this heart, its rosy heat catching the green snap of juniper while tobacco deepens the base into smoldering leaves. Violet threads a muted floral iris-like powder through the smoke, softening the edges without adding sweetness. Over hours the spices relax, leaving a clean mineral vetiver that clings close to skin with quiet persistence. Projection stays within arm’s length, perfect for crisp fall offices or evening events where subtlety reads as confidence.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
